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April 29, 2021
It’s not quite as mythical or legendary as the Loch Ness Monster, but seeing a sturgeon in Traverse City’s Boardman River is still a pretty rare event.
But that’s exactly what’s happened – on several occasions this week. Social media has been buzzing with reported sturgeon sightings, and one woman caught it on camera.
Leah McCallum walks along the Boardman going to and from work, and says she just looked down one day and saw the giant fish. “I walk to work all the time. I cross that bridge, I’ll cross this bridge and peek in the water. And – right place at the right time. It was – for lack of a better word – almost kind of spiritual. I’ve never seen a living thing in freshwater that large. It almost had a purplish glow to it. It was as long as I am tall, moved like a serpent, I would guess. It was stunning. It was a beautiful thing to see and I couldn’t believe it was right here in this river that I pass every day.”